ETL Contracts in the UK excluding London

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for ETL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ETL over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 115 106
Rank change year-on-year -19 -9 -12
Contract jobs citing ETL 338 519 737
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.67% 2.26% 2.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.97% 2.52% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 373 557
10th Percentile £357 £363 £362
25th Percentile £413 £415 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% +8.79%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £694 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 2
10th Percentile £22.93 £33.75 £36.00
25th Percentile £24.74 £35.00 £37.50
Median hourly rate £30.37 £43.13 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.58% +7.81% +61.62%
75th Percentile £31.81 £71.00 £42.50
90th Percentile £32.67 £79.20 £44.00
UK median hourly rate £48.50 £55.00 £45.50
% change year-on-year -11.82% +20.88% +66.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

ETL is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,127 20,595 27,099
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.40% 89.52% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,209 14,220 18,919
10th Percentile £250 £256 £238
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £479
Median % change year-on-year - +4.38% +9.49%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,061 1,259 1,357
10th Percentile £12.34 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.23 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.21%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.72 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%

ETL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing ETL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for ETL in the UK excluding London

ETL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ETL in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for ETL in the UK excluding London

ETL
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ETL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ETL in the UK excluding London

ETL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ETL in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for ETL in the UK excluding London

ETL
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ETL within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +32 120 £510 +2.00% 54
North West +34 82 £525 +13.51% 35
Midlands +11 73 £445 -17.59% 53
West Midlands +9 54 £425 -21.30% 39
South East -28 52 £478 -4.50% 23
South West -8 43 £525 +5.00% 27
Scotland -22 34 £500 +1.21% 8
Yorkshire +7 33 £500 -16.67% 14
East Midlands +14 18 £475 +4.40% 14
East of England -23 14 £525 +35.48% 13
North East +10 5 £345 -42.50% 5
Wales +13 3 £450 -10.00% 9
Northern Ireland -2 2 £400 -5.88% 12
ETL
UK

ETL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 30 (8.88%) Apache Spark
2 13 (3.85%) Apache
3 8 (2.37%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.59%) Confluence
4 2 (0.59%) SAS
5 1 (0.30%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.30%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.30%) CICS
5 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.30%) WebLogic
Applications
1 16 (4.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (1.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.89%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.89%) SAP CO
2 3 (0.89%) SAP FI
2 3 (0.89%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (0.59%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.59%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.59%) SAP CRM
3 2 (0.59%) SAP IS-U
3 2 (0.59%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.30%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.30%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.30%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.30%) Epicor Tropos
4 1 (0.30%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.30%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 118 (34.91%) Azure
2 107 (31.66%) Power Platform
3 81 (23.96%) AWS
4 56 (16.57%) Azure Data Factory
5 41 (12.13%) Amazon S3
6 36 (10.65%) Serverless
7 30 (8.88%) GCP
8 29 (8.58%) Snowflake
9 24 (7.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 19 (5.62%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
12 11 (3.25%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (3.25%) Dynamics 365
13 10 (2.96%) Amazon EMR
13 10 (2.96%) Azure Functions
14 9 (2.66%) OpenShift
15 8 (2.37%) Cloud Computing
15 8 (2.37%) Route 53
15 8 (2.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.66%) FTP
2 4 (1.18%) Firewall
3 1 (0.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (31.95%) Data Warehouse
2 107 (31.66%) Power BI
3 54 (15.98%) SQL Server
4 48 (14.20%) Data Lake
5 47 (13.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 46 (13.61%) Tableau
7 37 (10.95%) Amazon Redshift
7 37 (10.95%) Big Data
8 27 (7.99%) Relational Database
9 26 (7.69%) MySQL
10 21 (6.21%) PostgreSQL
11 20 (5.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 18 (5.33%) Hadoop
13 17 (5.03%) BigQuery
14 15 (4.44%) Azure SQL Database
14 15 (4.44%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 15 (4.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 14 (4.14%) Amazon RDS
15 14 (4.14%) NoSQL
16 13 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 36 (10.65%) Git
2 21 (6.21%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.66%) GitLab
3 9 (2.66%) JIRA
4 8 (2.37%) webpack
5 3 (0.89%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.59%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.59%) ERwin
7 1 (0.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.30%) LSMW
7 1 (0.30%) Selenium
7 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 68 (20.12%) Social Skills
2 56 (16.57%) Finance
3 46 (13.61%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (6.21%) Public Sector
5 17 (5.03%) Manufacturing
5 17 (5.03%) Pharmaceutical
6 14 (4.14%) Banking
7 9 (2.66%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.07%) Retail
9 6 (1.78%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.18%) Local Government
10 4 (1.18%) Marketing
11 2 (0.59%) Automotive
12 1 (0.30%) Back Office
12 1 (0.30%) Law
12 1 (0.30%) Police
12 1 (0.30%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.30%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 91 (26.92%) Data Engineer
2 81 (23.96%) Developer
3 37 (10.95%) Architect
4 26 (7.69%) Analyst
4 26 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 25 (7.40%) Lead
6 22 (6.51%) Azure Engineer
7 19 (5.62%) Azure Data Engineer
7 19 (5.62%) Senior
8 16 (4.73%) Data Architect
9 15 (4.44%) Power BI Developer
9 15 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
10 14 (4.14%) Data Manager
11 12 (3.55%) AWS Data Engineer
11 12 (3.55%) AWS Engineer
12 11 (3.25%) Consultant
13 10 (2.96%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 10 (2.96%) Data Analyst
14 9 (2.66%) Project Manager
15 8 (2.37%) Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.03%) Kafka
2 14 (4.14%) PySpark
2 14 (4.14%) XML
3 12 (3.55%) React
4 11 (3.25%) AWS CDK
5 10 (2.96%) Node.js
6 8 (2.37%) Express.js
6 8 (2.37%) Redux
7 6 (1.78%) JSON
8 4 (1.18%) Apache Avro
8 4 (1.18%) Flask
8 4 (1.18%) Microsoft Graph
8 4 (1.18%) Middleware
8 4 (1.18%) SQLAlchemy
9 3 (0.89%) HTML
9 3 (0.89%) OAuth
9 3 (0.89%) PyTorch
9 3 (0.89%) SpaCy
9 3 (0.89%) Spring
9 3 (0.89%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.14%) Data Structures
2 12 (3.55%) Onboarding
3 11 (3.25%) Product Ownership
4 10 (2.96%) Management Information System
5 9 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.07%) Data Centre
7 6 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.78%) Smart Meter
8 5 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.48%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.48%) Reference Data
8 5 (1.48%) Renewable Energy
9 4 (1.18%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (0.89%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.89%) Mainframe
11 2 (0.59%) Data Fabric
11 2 (0.59%) FMCG
11 2 (0.59%) Insider Threat
11 2 (0.59%) NHS
11 2 (0.59%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.85%) Unix
2 12 (3.55%) Linux
2 12 (3.55%) Windows
3 7 (2.07%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (38.76%) Business Intelligence
2 127 (37.57%) Data Modelling
3 115 (34.02%) Analytics
4 71 (21.01%) Agile
5 62 (18.34%) Migration
6 57 (16.86%) Data Integration
7 51 (15.09%) Visualisation
8 49 (14.50%) Data Pipeline
9 48 (14.20%) Data Engineering
10 46 (13.61%) Data Migration
11 42 (12.43%) Data Analytics
12 39 (11.54%) DevOps
13 38 (11.24%) Data Extraction
14 37 (10.95%) Scrum
15 36 (10.65%) Problem-Solving
16 31 (9.17%) CI/CD
17 30 (8.88%) Software Engineering
18 29 (8.58%) Data Governance
19 28 (8.28%) Data Analysis
19 28 (8.28%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 176 (52.07%) SQL
2 96 (28.40%) Python
3 37 (10.95%) Java
4 25 (7.40%) T-SQL
5 13 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 12 (3.55%) C#
7 11 (3.25%) TypeScript
8 9 (2.66%) JavaScript
8 9 (2.66%) PL/SQL
8 9 (2.66%) Scala
9 7 (2.07%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.78%) R
10 6 (1.78%) Search Processing Language
11 4 (1.18%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.18%) VB
12 3 (0.89%) Groovy
13 2 (0.59%) ABAP
13 2 (0.59%) Bash
13 2 (0.59%) VBA
14 1 (0.30%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 51 (15.09%) Security Cleared
2 44 (13.02%) SC Cleared
3 24 (7.10%) Degree
4 10 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.89%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.59%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.59%) IBM Certification
7 2 (0.59%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.59%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (0.59%) Tableau Certification
8 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (13.31%) Data Quality
2 24 (7.10%) QA
3 15 (4.44%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.66%) GDPR
5 2 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (0.59%) NIST
6 1 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.30%) PMO
6 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (5.03%) Docker
2 3 (0.89%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 26 (7.69%) Grafana
2 20 (5.92%) Kubernetes
3 16 (4.73%) Terraform
4 3 (0.89%) Ansible
4 3 (0.89%) Kibana
5 1 (0.30%) Control-M
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 54 (15.98%) Microsoft
2 34 (10.06%) Databricks
3 30 (8.88%) Oracle
4 26 (7.69%) Talend
5 20 (5.92%) Informatica
6 17 (5.03%) Denodo
6 17 (5.03%) SAP
7 14 (4.14%) Google
8 10 (2.96%) Ab Initio
9 8 (2.37%) Splunk
10 7 (2.07%) Salesforce
11 6 (1.78%) F5
12 5 (1.48%) Alteryx
12 5 (1.48%) Autodesk
12 5 (1.48%) IBM
13 4 (1.18%) Cloudera
13 4 (1.18%) IFS
14 3 (0.89%) IDERA
14 3 (0.89%) JD Edwards
14 3 (0.89%) Liquidlogic